London’s best cheap lunches

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Hidden in the world’s first ‘pop-up’ mall are several great lunch options.Simon Dawson/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Tom Goodenough

Last updated at 5:01PM, April 5 2012

A hastily put-together packed lunch is no longer the norm for Londoners living
and working in the city: that bag of squashed sandwiches is more likely than
ever to be upgraded to food from some unusual outlets.

Lunch prepared in the back of vans, pop-up restaurants and even sandwiches
from a warehouse are some of the unlikely places that Londoners are choosing
to snack from. Although these might sound like locations that are off the
beaten track, the queues at one ‘o’ clock on a weekday at many of our
suggestions show that more and more people are by-passing traditional